THE SCRAPBOOK is pleased and proud to note the establishment last week of the Eric Breindel Memorial Foundation. Breindel, a distinguished columnist, editor, and WEEKLY STANDARD contributor, died suddenly in March at the age of 42. News Corporation, Breindel's employer and the corporate parent of this magazine, has made a generous initial pledge to the foundation, devoted to Breindel's memory. The foundation will administer the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism -- a $ 10,000 prize to be presented annually to the "columnist or editorialist whose work best reflects the spirit that animated the writings of Eric Breindel: love of country and its democratic institutions, as well as the act of bearing witness to the evils of totalitarianism."
The Breindel Foundation will accept additional donations from interested parties. Its address is 1211 Avenue of the Americas, Third Floor, New York, New York 10036. Journalists who wish to be considered should submit no more than five editorials or columns, together with a $ 25 entry fee, before December 31 of each year.